Land tenure administration : towards a regulatory backdrop to land tenure in Iraq

Al-ossmi, Laith Hady; Ahmed, V

Abstract

This paper discusses some of those aspects of land law in the Iraqi case that might have a direct bearing onnational development or retardation. In so doing it will follow a reviewing to the historical-developmentalapproach to questions of legal doctrine, thereby pointing in the direction to which the Iraqi land legaldevelopment is proceeding. This paper introduce background reviewing, and discuss the Iraqi’s key insti-tutional & regulatory framework, and introducing the administrative authorities of land and giving briefdetails of its hierarchy and responsibilities in this respect. Accordingly, this paper explores the Iraqi casewithin 5 different periods of time to review all those doctrines and decrees that shaped the pre-modernlaws of land and land rights by focusing on the main administrative progresses during the implementa-tion of the Iraqi national development. The discussion progresses to deal with the Iraqi current crisis inorder to assess the role of Iraqi Land Authorities (ILAs) focusing on their efficiency under the influenceof the recent situations. The paper also highlighted a set of the Iraq’s complex critical factors, which arebelieved to be the fundamental considerations for implementing the land tenure and its security andsaving the land users’ rights in the Iraqi current case.

Citation

Al-ossmi, L. H., & Ahmed, V. (2016). Land tenure administration : towards a regulatory backdrop to land tenure in Iraq. Land Use Policy, 57(22), 250-264. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2016.05.016

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: May 20, 2016
• Online Publication Date: Jun 14, 2016
• Publication Date: Nov 1, 2016
• Deposit Date: Jul 7, 2016
• Journal: Land Use Policy
• Print ISSN: 0264-8377
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Volume: 57
• Issue: 22
• Pages: 250-264
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2016.05.016
• Publisher URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2016.05.016
• Related Public URLs: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/land-use-policy/
• Additional Information: Funders : laith Al-ossmi